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    Tech Industry Scandals: Does the Public Really Care?

    December 30th, 2016

    As most of you know, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was pulled from the marketplace because it had a battery that could overheat or burst into flame. This was — or should have been — a major story not just for the few million users of the product, but for anyone who might have considered […]


    Is It Time for Apple to Up Its Game?

    May 6th, 2016

    Amid all the comments about Apple’s less-than-stellar sales performance in the last quarter, there have been suggestions on how Apple might fix things. Some were dumb, such as suggesting that the iPhone 7 needs to be a more compelling update. It’s dumb because we do not know what features or performance levels an iPhone 7 will […]


    Apple’s Earnings: What’s Good is Bad is — Whatever

    April 24th, 2014

    In announcing the quarterly financials for the March 2014 quarter, Apple may have been in a lose-lose situation. Regardless of what the figures would show, the usual offenders in the media who dislike what the company is all about will complain. Now accompanying the news of the financial results, Apple played some more money games with […]


    All Those Tablets and Nothing to Do

    August 21st, 2013

    On the surface at least, it would seem that the iPad is losing market share real fast. Just this week came a published report, citing IDC — which is sometimes wrong I might add — that the iPad’s share of the Chinese market has slumped below 30%. Overall, Apple had a 32.4% share across the planet in the last […]